Once a year, dignitaries gather in Selma, Alabama for the annual commemoration of 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing. During election cycles, many of those dignitaries are Democratic Party politicians, and even some seeking the highest office in the

RALEIGH, North Carolina — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights took in lopsided testimony from experts and legal practitioners Friday to gauge the status of minority ballot access ahead of the 2018 midterms and beyond.

Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill dismissed a late-night announcement from former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s campaign that it had filed a complaint in Circuit Court in Montgomery, AL to halt the certification of

During an interview on CNN on Tuesday, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) stated that he believes it is “highly unlikely” that the results of the Alabama Senate election will change to be anything other than Democrat Doug Jones

Late Wednesday, the Alabama Secretary of State’s office issued a statement claiming what it described as a “misleading” ad from the Birmingham-based pro-Doug Jones super PAC Highway 31 was removed by Google at its behest. According to the release, the office headed

Monday, the Alabama Secretary of State’s office issued a statement on an ad produced by the super PAC Highway 31, which is promoting the candidacy of Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Doug Jones in next week’s special election. The ad claims that

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said that the Alabama Republican Party can formally pull its support for its Senate nominee Judge Roy Moore, and if this

Thursday on CNN’s “OutFront,” Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said if the state’s Republican Party requested that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore be removed as the party’s candidate, he would “honor” that request but Moore would stay on the ballot. Partial transcript

EVERGREEN, Alabama – On Election Day afternoon, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill warned voters who participated in last month’s Democratic primary in Alabama’s U.S. Senate special election were not eligible to vote in today’s GOP primary runoff between former Alabama